Penn's Landing
Penn's Landing is a waterfront area of Center City Philadelphia along the Delaware River.
Bridgeport is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles (29 km) north of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. The old-time industries were paper, flour, cotton, and woolen mills, steel works, brickyards, etc. Bridgeport is six miles (10 km) east of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington and the Continental Army passed through Bridgeport on their way to their winter encampment in Valley Forge. 3,097 people lived in Bridgeport in 1900; 3,860 in 1910; and 5,904 in 1940.
Population: 4,554
Latitude: 40° 06' 18.40" N
Longitude: -75° 20' 42.65" W
Penn's Landing is a waterfront area of Center City Philadelphia along the Delaware River.
Penn State Abington is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in the Abington section of Abington Township. The campus i…
Abington Senior High School is a three-year co-educational high school in Abington, Pennsylvania, USA. The school was a two-year high school known as Abington South Campus until June 1983. In September 1983, Abington South Campus became a three-year…
Swarthmore (pronounced /ˈswɑːθ.mɔr/ SWAHTH-mor locally, or /ˈswɔrθ.mɔr/ SWAWRTH-mor) is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Swarthmore was originally named Westdale in honor of noted painter Benjamin West, who was one of the e…
Schwenksville is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,385 at the 2010 census. It is notable for being located near the site of the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is a large performing arts venue located at 300 South Broad Street at the corner of Spruce Street, along the stretch known as the "Avenue of the Arts", in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is owned…
Conestoga High School, located in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania, United States, is the only secondary school in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District.
The Betsy Ross House is a landmark in Philadelphia alleged to be the site where the seamstress and flag-maker Betsy Ross, (1752-1836), purportedly lived when she purportedly sewed the first American Flag. The origins of the Betsy Ross myth trace bac…
The Adventure Aquarium, formerly the New Jersey State Aquarium, is a for-profit educational entertainment attraction operated in Camden, New Jersey on the Delaware River Camden Waterfront by the Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation. Originally…
The Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal is the primary intercity bus station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 1001 Filbert Street in Center City Philadelphia, immediately north of The Gallery at Market East shopping mall and the SEPTA Jef…
Wyncote (pronounced "WIN-coat") is a census-designated place (CDP) bordering North Philadelphia in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,044 at the 2010 census. Wyncote is located 5 miles from Cent…
The Gallery at Market East, or "The Gallery" as it is known to locals, is an urban mall in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States with over 130 stores and a food court.
Saint Joseph's Preparatory School is an urban, private, Catholic, college preparatory school founded in 1851 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. St. Joseph's Preparatory School is run by the Jesuit order of the Cath…
Lansdowne is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States located 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of downtown Philadelphia. It was named for the Marquess of Lansdowne. The borough grew quickly in the early part of the twentieth century when …
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal was a 1982 murder trial in which Mumia Abu-Jamal was tried for the first-degree murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.
The Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia opened in 1890 as an all-male high school located at the intersection of Broad and Vine Streets in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The Granite Run Mall is a double-level shopping mall located on U.S.
The history of sculpture in the United States begins in the 1600s "with the modest efforts of craftsmen who adorned gravestones, Bible boxes, and various utilitarian objects with simple low-relief decorations." American sculpture in its many forms, …